but that other malfunctioning of. this. audience is flipped out they cheered everybody in the eighty's wanted to be gordon gekko but the thing is this oliver stone wrote it as a piece of satire but nobody got it just the opposite all over stone was trying to send up the excesses of the reagan era michael douglas's portrayal helped inspire a whole generation of slicked back hair doos in double breasted suits adopting the greed is good ethos and pursuing the american dream as it had come to be defined now delivers a pretty well for a very few poverty and misery down on many and serving as a homicidal force for others because people do in fact die for lack of access to health care in the richest country in the world that's the us of a human consumption is in fact accelerating the instruction of our planet people do in fact die in wars waged based on lies that profit the precious view over five million

children globally each year do not reach their fifth birthday because they die of starvation all of this is not because the system that puts man on the moon or can squeeze an entire library onto a computer chip the size of a thumbnail has failed to find a way to solve these problems rather our system without apology places corporate greed. and greed take back the popular phrase is not good now the question many within the occupy movement are trying to solve is this one what would world look like that had a culture and an economic system that places human need above corporate greed and how do we bring that world into being cares what it is call call it socialism call it real democracy now call it chunky monkey cherry garcia the world needs to change radically needs to change dramatically and it needs to change fast this documentary is an invitation for you to participate in that positive. frankly because we need

you yes. it's console bad well it's a very well to buy but makes it a problem if you just saw all the money in one place. that that so i got you was going to money is doing it for people that have the world. sixty four million years six years. well that's three percent of american families you know one percent of the wealth of ninety five percent of america so now that we've identified the problem broadly speaking what do you think the solution is raise your hand if you

think the way our representative democracy currently functions bought and sold as it is by wall street and super pacs offers a bright ray of hope forward for anyone to the very same power anyone politicians know if they set out spend their competitors when they're when the election ninety four percent of the time ok so. they have no fear of the american people they fear the people who are going to fund their campaigns right so that means that you me and just about everyone we know has very little say over who represents us and little to no influence over them once they get into office or in a process is rigged to throw an enormous amount of money behind candidates in the two major parties and consequently choosing the lesser of two evils is something americans have done with a fatalistic shrug of the shoulders for far too long to say the u.s. government currently functions of foreign by the people would be a funny joke if the joke were not on you mean almost everyone we know imagine a world in which your single voice. carried as much weight as the c.e.o.

of goldman sachs and you're starting to imagine the world that the occupy movement is trying to bring into being it was going to be just not a good enough we go below got to go and just just. got the only thing we need to do just not to conduct but you just look at the money . just yes that's democracy in action but level experiencing the horizontal community and culture and organization. was so radicalizing for two point continues to be so radicalized because it draws such a stark contrast against what they're fighting and actually in their minds clarifies what they're up against more than somebody. more than it would be clarified if somebody got up and tried to clarify it for them thanks to occupy wall street there is

a lot of new ways of organizing which is not just calling people to participate in something you came up with but giving people the opportunity to create themselves and to be there in a regional brainstorming about what to do so that they feel empowered in this moment and it's also i think. finally put the kybosh on let's organize a rally on a saturday in washington d.c. when everything is closed and people come from around the country and spend a lot of money to walk around in a circle and. i think. what . people might think it was by a certain degree much. i guess what you say is. no longer represents the people and the people organizing.

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you thank you. thank you. thank you so much. for. i. mean five thirty in the morning is a comedy on most mornings early in the occupy wall street movement there would only be about fifty maybe two hundred or so occupying the space but it's five thirty in the morning on the morning of october fourteenth two thousand and eleven several thousand people were gathered there wide awake why because mayor mike bloomberg had declared that his own personal army his words the n.y.p.d.

constituting the seventh largest army in the world would have victor occupy wall street and these thousands were there not just in solidarity they were in their arms with an idea some cardboard signs in an urgency to protect the young men and many of them were prepared to go to jail trying to fill the space i had already gone to jail once since all of this started as an organizer with the october two thousand and eleven coalition i had been in washington d.c. in the early days of the movement and you can see me here after suggesting repeatedly i had met inside the hart senate office building that we find other uses for the money we lavish on our homicidal bull geo political china shop and the foreign policy i was given to do not pass go go directly to jail card and in a few days i would be arrested again this time for protesting corporate personhood on the steps of the supreme court bear witness let me bet it would occupy movement all around the world because we love people we are working people and. that jane

joined us from the grave that we have a budget. occupy d.c. occupy wall street occupy the supreme court not you everywhere in my willingness to go to jail for the movement though i was hardly unique and with the thousands that were in zuccotti on the morning of october fourteenth it seemed that you're about to eclipse the previous one day record total of seven hundred protesters arrested on the brooklyn bridge what was it that brought all of those people to use a coffee that it may not be. a revolution in the traditional sense but this is a revolution of the law and our people not losing anything not to be stuck like holy spirit gains in congress radical right is it everybody was like oh please the more you do it like. in the first six months of the movement about seven thousand people have been arrested in occupy related protests for things like why all the fuss. and why in the predawn hours on that friday in

october were so many prepared to go to jail i thought oh my eyes we're supposed to get cleaned out of the park we swept the show up park and then we took brooms and we took them to austria to co-create up austria having most of the problems but the filth was in the offices so we didn't get to it but we did a little victory lap and the police brutalized the cyrus the people i know they do that they have done that for trying to twenty five years in this country thirty five years nonviolent confrontations with the police whether they be in asserting one's first amendment rights to assemble for an uncommitted spontaneous marches in the streets can be incredibly empowering the building experience an antidote to the years of disempowering and williams free speech zone when it comes to be the most

and yet civil resistance is but one part one tactic of the movement if you only saw the early stages of the occupy movement through the lens of the mainstream media you might think the movement was solely about clashes with the police i. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything is ok you don't. i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

let me let me i want to wouldn't let me ask you a question. here on this network is what we're having in the bank we have our knives out. but if you hear this right it's the banks saying never again you're in a situation where b. and i don't want me to talk about your name let me. the world. didn't believe.

in a lot. of. crime. believe .

it. and i can assure you i want to. be like this when i get. back i actually like. to hear you are in her civilian to get excited when you see if i was your common sense i saw that. people that had not been seen anything sprang up and there is no honor in. my pov that everybody who has served in iraq afghanistan like to look at. my father was an afghan and the mother didn't

get our back country don't come home i'm in new york city my i'm from new york city and if. there's no reason for their children there's no honor and i don't see a million. i. was. it. was i was i am if you. can say i can't really. relate your entire ok let's just be honest here for a moment for some people this is and justifiably so a battle about a police state since one nine hundred eighty the number of people in prison per capita in the united states has more than tripled we now in prison a greater percentage of our population than any other country in the world in fact

the united states is only five percent of the world's population has twenty five percent of the world's prison population in the u.s. one in every one hundred six white males aged eighteen or over is incarcerated for hispanic males that number is one in thirty six and one in fifteen black males over eighteen is currently in jail. between one thousand nine hundred seven and two thousand and seven state spending on incarceration related expenses increased one hundred twenty seven percent while spending on higher education during that same period rose a mere twenty percent is it that much more profitable jail or population than it is to educate and. i think that's a great dreams and then their head lock arms now you know why take me to jail and you got to continue to do this i read about it joe you know watch you continue to put my brother my sister in law my moms or anybody else that looks like me and i read and think it should be a scary thing not just for those oh you know people color minority but out of us

know that we have to live in a society like that. ok so depending on your geographic location your everyday reality may reflect the police state we live in two larger or smaller degrees but at least you have your health right at least you have your home. already made every job. yes you slice that with your so far as your recreational mother. of every two thousand werner lariam profiting owner. you're. going to rebuy action taking place right now. from my camera right i like you you're welcome pal sometimes it demanding change on a large scale has to start with small groups of individuals saying enough is enough like this group of individuals and western massachusetts who gather in an attempt to stop bank of america from executing yet another foreclosure. the fact is it's.

a lack of government regulations gave banks enough rope to operate like cowboys in the wild west and they responded by lassoing homeowners with these predatory lending practices when the housing bubble burst thank of america got bailed out and those with underwater mortgages were sold out so that c.e.o.'s like brian moynihan could collect the year end bonus of over nine million dollars a week lou with that they have enough money to pay for a reasonable war gauge at today's values so this is something that all of can stand behind we believe that when folks have you know a home that they should be able to stay in that home and it's not like they're not willing to pay this is the weirdest movement i've ever worked in this way and the foreclosure movement because we are begging people to take money and they won't take it of course occupy hardly invented foreclosure defenses people like grace and anti foreclosure organizations have been toiling away at this for years but when occupy wall street went to east new york in december to march occupy are more and

more people around the country started to realize that there was another way to come back oh god. was. there. and sometimes demanding change in a large scale starts with even smaller groups dr margaret flowers is among the nation's leading advocates for true health care reform health care reform that would eliminate the for profit insurance companies and provide medicare for all individuals in the united states a former pediatrician and congressional fellow dr flowers worked within the system for years after the farm passed i was traveling around the country and people kept saying how are we going to get single payer i was speaking around various states and and i stole a kind of came together like oh well unless you know as a as a movement even though we're in the majority of the population once a single payer system we're not going to be strong enough as a single issue. kind of movement to have that kind of political power and health

care is really part of a broader social economic justice movement anyway and so we really need to come together bring our strengths together combine our strengths to have the power and so i notice in my talks i was starting to shift more into you know calling for a broader movement as a core organizer of the october two thousand and eleven coalition that occupied freedom plaza in washington d.c. dr flowers thought fit to attend as an uninvited guest a wall street comes to washington health care conference i crashed the party with her i doubt they would let my big camera and so i had to shoot the video this impromptu meeting with the real death panels on myself was a gawker that we did and that was it was acceptable. practice because they can't provide what. was was.

fine if there was a snow cave you are right. three . pounds but not arresting and join protesters picketing outside where a derose girl shared her story of why health care was literally a life and i say here because. for my father mark i left school. because. i have enough money to pay for health care. myself for sixty four years old. considering suicide ever. said

everything to. anybody. called. blessed by god my daughter. understands. that by my. father. her daughter. not only for my father but for all the. past have passed. it is a. thing. ok oh ok thank you think you know my mortgage is underwater and my health care

costs are going through this here is america i'll just pull myself up by the bootstraps and get to work nose to the grindstone will solve all ills but be careful out there if you haven't noticed there is a war on workers well underway between one thousand nine hundred and two thousand and eight the average income of the bottom ninety percent remained effectively unchanged at thirty one thousand dollars per year in that same time span the average income of the top one percent went from four hundred thousand dollars to over one point one million dollars per year so much for trickle down economics in one thousand nine hundred a c.e.o. made forty two times that of an average employee by two thousand and ten c. those were earning three hundred forty three times the workers median wage and while the rich got richer they were paying less and less taxes in one nine hundred forty five millionaires get

a tax rate of sixty six percent in two thousand and ten millionaires effective tax rate was thirty two percent or more gratian things look even better bank of america hold over two point two trillion in assets and pays less in taxes than the average american household in two thousand and ten g.b. reported five point two million dollars in profit and was awarded a tax refund three point two billion dollars citi group has not paid taxes in the last four years and yet in the wake of the financial crisis they are deemed too big to fail and received four hundred seventy six billion dollars in taxpayer bailout money and goldman sachs has spent twenty two million dollars in campaign contributions and twenty one million dollars in lobbying. efforts in the past decade and in two thousand and eight paid taxes at a rate. for a. one person that i was.

i. was. of the. kind i was and that. was i think i. was. i. might have been one percent at eighty one but the debate is the twenty five years that nothing but pretty. we've been working people. seem to hit this problem that they said we would put up with we may have been born at night but nonetheless i was going to say we would like to say thank you because i think

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